Word Finder - prehistory

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(properly) History before written records, inclusive of both

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Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.

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(often as pre-history) The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.

A new chapter in British prehistory has now been opened.

Many archeologists vigorously deny that cannibalism has ever been normal practice in Britain or elsewhere, in prehistory or at any more recent period.

Later farming communities also employed fire to clear vegetation and the spread of heather moor in the upland probably accelerated from late prehistory onwards.

He suggests that people may not have been aware of the bigger changes that we identify when studying prehistory.

The Sheffield venue saw two trends, a major one toward Aegean prehistory, and a minor one toward Western Mediterranean archeology.

Now it is extending its range back to the Paleolithic and will be including far more prehistory in its undergraduate syllabus than previously.

Armed with these records, Pichel developed a whole prehistory for a new group he founded or with which he was connected.

The conference will review the evidence, past and present, for round houses in Scotland during later prehistory.

Indeed, without its role as a provider of origins, early prehistory would have little purpose.

Any excursion into the prehistory of Grampian should start at Scotland's unique prehistory park, at Oyne.

Three of these finds are nationally significant discoveries, adding immeasurably to our understanding of British prehistory.

Pillar of the sky is her one excursion into prehistory so far which sets out to explore the origins of Stonehenge.

Stalinist revolutionism from above had a prehistory in the political culture of Russian tsarism; it existed as a pattern in the Russian past.

Discover royal splendor from prehistory to the Renaissance, from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.